Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-10
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE LATE JUDGE MCKEE.

Resolutions of Respect Adopted by the
Sacramento Bar Yesterday.
A meeting of the Sacramento Bar was
held yesterday, Judges Van Fleet and
Armstrong presiding in bank, to receive
the report of the committee appointed at a
previous meeting to draft resolutions ex-
pressive of the sentiments of the Bar rela-
tive to the late Judge S. B. Mckee. Hon.
Grove L. Johnson presented and read the
report, which was as follows:
IN MEMoRIAM OF SAMUEL BELL M'KEE.
The death of a good man lmpresses
those of his friends and acquaintance
left behind him with sense of their own
mortality. and reminds them of their duty
TO their families, their country and their
Creator.
The death of man in exalted station,
whose life has been public one, stirs the
hearts, not merely of those who knew him
best, but of the whole people who have
learned to regard him as a leader in their
affairs.
When the man, removed from the activi-
ties OF this world by the command of that
God who permitted him to enter therein.
combines within himself these two charac-
teristics of goodness Eof speech and con-
awaken TO a realization of their depend
ance upon the dead, their relations to the
living, and the solemn lessons to be drawn
from all such occasions.
In the death of Samuel Bell Mckee. late
Justice of the Supreme Court of Cali
fornia, such an event has occurred.
The members of the Bar of Sacramento
city and county, deeply sensible of the
loss sustained by our State in the decease of
ok on -
feelings in regard thereto.
For thirty years he has been q Judge
among us-holding in his hands to greater
or less extent the fortunes. the liberties and
the lives of the people of his adopted State
Tor nearly the duration of generation of
men. During that length of service-we
believe unequaled on the Pacific coast-the
breath of suspicion never was felt upon his
character as a man, his integrity as public
servant, or his honesty as a Judge.
OF mind highly judicial in its charac-
with learning profound and far-reach-
With ability second to none, he filled
reformed the onerous, delicate and
sible duties of the office of County
of District Judge and of Justice of
spreme Court TO the satisfaction of
0ple and the approval Of his own
nee.
written opinions are clear, concise
e, convincing, and at times ele-
although expositions of the science
W, which itself dry and abstruse,
Is the text-writer or Judge to pune
of all imagery or rhetorical -four
public career was a reflex of his
z life. In both he was prudent in his
Z, honest in his conduct, fearful only
ng wrong, and brave in the perform
{ that which he deemed his duty.
ler public clamor the glare of tenn
success, the subtle promises or the
lie power of wealthy men or corpora
could sway him from the path his
cence and his mind blazed before his
tai and physical feet as the one wherein
honest man and an upright Judge must
X.
S citizens of California, proud of our
te as men mindful of the obligations
our common community as lawyers
fly conscious of the grandeur of our
ling. we mourn the death of Samuel
Il Mckee and point to him as one who
1rned by his learning, rectitude and
lily the honorable profession Of the law;
o, by the graces of his character, proved
,selt of a verify good man, and by his
lence among us ennobled the common
h of the Golden State.
career presents an example to ali
'awyers and clergymen alike, that
3tuQ1eu Will llluUlOe LOT BOOu the
of the painstaking, careful coun-
eloquent advocate and the honest
very rank of life while from it
eriye instruction and aid in that
yer Waged with sin and trouble by
ind.
end that we may more fifty ex-
selves, and that record may be
our sentiments regarding Judge
we request that this memorial
ie spread upon the minutes of the
Court in bank of Sacramento
a copy be presented to the Supreme
If California, and a copy be for
to the family of our dead friend.
GROVE L. JOHNSON,
JOHN NBLLEs YOU'VE,
S. G. benson,
A. L. HART,
S. SoLoN HoLL,
Committee of the Bar of Sacramento.
he reading of the memorial was fol-
we'd by interesting and appropriate re-
srks by Judge benson. Messrs. johnson
nd benson were then appointed as a COM
aittee to present the memorial to the Su-
rene Court. 1t was also ordered that the
report be adopted and spread upon the
minutes, and that the Superior Court in
bank adjourn out of respect to the memory
of the deceased.